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D. H. Lawrence in New Mexico: The Time is Different There

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Rare is the book that can keep you enthralled and page-turning on a topic of which you previously couldn't hold ground past two seconds in conversation.

Or one that you can actually read cover to cover from first picking up.

The style of writing is as breezy as it is intensive and never dry.

An excellent work and book.

While the subject of the book is of obvious interest to both D H Lawrence fans and people interested in Taos, NM (Lawrence's stays there have taken on a somewhat mythical significance and his ashes were taken back to Taos by his wife, Frieda), I found the book to be quite episodic. It seemed to have been written in a hurry, and I was particularly disappointed in the index.

As one example, the author starts talking about Dorothy Brett (a friend from England) in Chapter One without telling the reader who she is, and the index doesn't help. I would have expected more from a book published by the University of New Mexico Press.

This is still of great interest to people already familiar with Lawrence.